𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 - 𝐝.𝐦 !!𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝!!

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I tried not to wince as mother pressed her thumb into the scar. I was going back to school today, and the incident from the Christmas ball had somewhat healed. It's still very sore, as you can tell. After what happened, draco took me back to his room, and we stayed there the rest of the night, talking to each other.

Mother removed her thumb, and looked at me with her stone cold eyes. "I trust you learned your lesson, then?"

My eyes looked everywhere but at her. "Yes, ma'am."

"Good. Next time, hold your tongue, and this won't happen."

"Yes, ma'am."

Mother looked to xavier, and smiled brightly. I went to get in the train when narcissa stopped me, and pulled me into a hug.

Her hand stroke my hair. "It's okay, sweetheart." She whispered in my ear.

Fresh tears sprung my eyes. How is it, every time someone comforts you, you just want to break down? I blinked the tears away, trying not to show a sign of weakness.

"I know." I whispered.

"Have a good time at school."

I walked over to draco, and looped my arm through his. He led me to a compartment that we were sharing with my brother. The look on xavier's face showed that he wanted to talk to me alone.

"Draco, can you leave us alone for a moment, please?"

"Take all the time you need." He smiled. "I'll be in the compartment with the others." By 'others' he meant his friends.

"Okay, you want to talk, so talk." I said once the door was closed. I sat across from him, and looked out the window.

"What were you thinking?" He started. "You knew something like that would have happened, and you knew father wouldn't care if it was a party or not. Y/n, look at me."

"What?" I looked at him.

"Did you know that our parents were starting to like you again?"

I scoffed. "I doubt that."

"It's true. It's because you didn't complain to them when they announced that you and malfoy will be getting married. Do you know how awful father felt when he heard that you got hurt by the hippogriff? It may not seem like it, but father cares about you, he really does."

"If father cared about me, he wouldn't treat me the way he does. He wouldn't have slapped me across the face at the malfoy's party."

"He had a lot to drink that night."

"That doesn't mean anything."

"Just trust me, okay? Why do you think he didn't listen to mother, and send you off to beauxbatons? He wanted you close to him, he favors you more than he favors me."

"Then why does he treat me the way he does? How come i can't decide things for myself?"

"He wants what's best for you."

"And selling me like livestock is what's best for me?"

"Y/n, he cares about you a lot. More than me."

I rolled my eyes. "He has a funny way of showing it."

~

We were back at hogwarts, and for some crazy reason, hermione and ron weren't talking to each other. I guess harry got a firebolt for christmas, and hermione thought it might've been from sirius black, so she ran to professor mcgonagall, who then took the broomstick from harry himself. Harry had forgiven me when I came back, saying that his emotions had gotten the best of him.

I had taken my hair down from the braid it was in, and let it curtain my face. "Honestly, harry, I think hermione did the right thing. It could've been cursed and killed you."

"Oh, no, y/n. Please don't tell me you're on her side as well." Ron groaned.

I looked up from my plate of food, arching an eyebrow at him. "Are you joking, ron? If the broom is jinxed, then that would be the fourth time harry would have almost died during quidditch. First, he almost was knocked off cause quirrel was trying to kill him, then dobby made that rouge bludger chase after him, which also broke his arm, and then the first match. Dementors came making him go unconscious, falling through the air. But him having a jinxed broom is perfectly okay."

His eyes narrowed. "What happened to your face?"

"I-I-I fell." A dry lump formed in my throat. "I was walking, and there was some ice. I slipped, and landed on my face."

"Well, that's what happened."

My eyes flickered over to the slytherin table, where xavier was watching me, worried.

I'm sorry that this was so short